Southampton Murder Victims Vol 2 by Jim Brown

Description

Much anticipated sequel to 2010’s “Southampton Murder Victims”. Each case is arranged in chronological order, allowing the reader to dip into the period of their choice. It contains over 200 pictures, some of them official police photographs “Southampton Murder Victims Vol II” is the result of painstaking research by the author, who had unrivalled access to police and other archive files normally unavailable to the general public. It has resulted in fascinating accounts of over sixty murders committed in Southampton between 1873 and 2012. The accounts are arranged in strict chronological order, allowing the reader to dip into the period of their choice, the earlier cases arousing nostalgia for parts of the city that have long since vanished. The book contains many illustrations, some of them official police photos showing the scene of the crime and published for the first time, making the book a must-read for the bloodthirsty, the historians and the just plain curious